The Delhi High Court on Wednesday granted bail to Kashmir’s foremost human rights activist Khurram Parvez in a terrorism financing case being investigated by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) under India’s anti-terror law, Live Law reported.
A bench of Justices Navin Chawla and Ravinder Dudeja allowed Parvez’s appeal against a lower court order that had denied him bail in December 2024.
“We have granted bail, subject to various conditions,” the court said while delivering its ruling. The detailed order was not immediately available.
Parvez was arrested in Srinagar in November 2021 and has remained in custody since then. According to court records cited during the proceedings, he had spent more than three years in jail by the time he challenged the trial court’s decision.
The NIA alleges that individuals linked to the banned militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) recruited overground workers, collected intelligence on security installations and channelled funds for militant activities. Parvez was arrested during the investigation, although he was not named in the original first information report.
In its charge sheet, the agency accused Parvez of recruiting overground workers for LeT, gathering information related to army deployments, maintaining links with Pakistan-based militant groups and encouraging protests following the killing of Hizbul Mujahideen commander Burhan Wani in 2016.
Parvez has denied the allegations. His lawyers argued before the court that investigators had failed to produce evidence linking him to any banned organisation, terrorist financing network or transfer of sensitive military information.
The defence also said there was no digital evidence showing contact between Parvez and members of proscribed groups and questioned the prosecution’s claims regarding his alleged meetings with co-accused persons.
Senior advocate Tanveer Ahmed Mir led the legal team representing Parvez.
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